a ceasefire ending eight days of violence between israel and hamas remains intact but critics say the truce is just the calm before the next storm. stark differences of opinion between the major economies and the budget talks in brussels in the. brain sentences nearly two dozen medics in jail treating contestants just a day after amnesty international revealed the worsening human rights record. international news and comment twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. on kerry johnston well our top story now the cease fire agreed between israel and

the palestinian group hamas late on wednesday has now held firm for more than twenty four hours but the truce had a shaky start with several rockets fired from gaza immediately after the deal was sealed the main question now is whether israel is going to ease its blockade of the palestinian territory as artie's put us there reports from tel aviv. some of the fighting we've witnessed in the years between israelis and palestinians if indeed the truce holds it will mean that roughly one point seven million gazans will have a spine now from what we've seen eight days of heavy bombardment at the same time it brings with spikes to roughly a million israelis who live in the south of israel and who've been on the receiving end of constant barrage of rockets but i say if it holds because it is perceived as being rather fragile it certainly is a truce that came by surprise it followed a day of deadly violence in which some twenty eight israelis were injured in the

first bus bombing in tel aviv since two thousand and six and there were massive israeli air strikes over gaza so the sense on the ground particularly in the hours leading up to the announcement of the cease fire was that israel was going to go ahead with a ground offensive not only on who has said that he is willing to give this truce a chance he says however he does hold open the possibility to reopen the conflict at a later stage he said and i'm quoting i know that there are citizens in israel that expected a more severe military action to be taken and perhaps we will need to do so there is criticism towards netanyahu particularly among people in the south of the country who would have supported a ground offensive and wanted to see a much harsher israeli reaction we've had protests in several cities in the south we still don't have too much information exactly what the terms of the cease fire do in fact say but i can tell you that israel for its side has committed to ending hostilities in gaza and at the same time stopping with its targeted killings and

mass for its side has also said that it will stop firing rockets into southern israel and staging cross border attacks now there is a lot of questions still hanging over the whole issue of whether or not is what was left its blockade on gaza that has been in place for several years now we do understand that is what must begin talks re opening this for the border crossings and lifting the blockade and easing restrictions on the movement of both people and goods so while the cease fire at the moment is holding based there is a lot of tension on the ground and a lot of questions as to whether or not it will stand the test of time. author and journalist afshin rattansi says the battle was on even as israeli forces had the backing of powerful western allies and was no match for the israeli military backed by britain and the united states to supply them with nuclear weapons of mass destruction and so forth it's important because as a democratically elected government of gaza it's proved to have so many allies from

iran to egypt they have to be part of any peace negotiations for a one party state which will after. scored its victory with the most basic of rockets really these homemade things is a sea change in nature monica the thing to watch is the right in israel and how they react out of the polling numbers for the coming israeli elections show a swing to the so-called extremists but israel's deputy foreign minister says that most of the people hit by israeli strikes deserve it claiming they were armed terrorists and other palestinian health officials and human rights activists say more than two thirds of those killed were civilians the most half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower actually perry a former senior advisor for israel's foreign minister says the casualty figures demonstrate the country's military superiority. israel has invested billions of

dollars protecting its people either through more protected rooms so every single rockets which emanated from gaza had the intent to kill in fact it intended to kill many people mass casualties and if we hadn't invested that money in the protection of our people there would have been far greater numbers on the israeli side so i don't think we need to apologize for the quote that we have invested money to protect our citizens where is the opposition the hamas have actually spent millions if not billions of dollars trying to create a system of terror which bears no regard for the treatment of its own civilians with the aggression may have stopped but deep divisions between the israeli ambassador remain smoking fears the truce is doomed from the outset. teacher can has more now on the tensions that led to the latest round of violence. this ceasefire deal doesn't even begin to address the root causes of the conflict and as long as they remain the decades long cycle of violence is almost assured to

continue by now most people lost track of all the previous cease fire agreements and more generally of where it all started and it became for the most part a chicken and egg conversation you have the years long suppression of the palestinians we saw radical forces among them rising and striking it is well with is well coming back at them so hard that even most peaceful palestinian started sympathizing with radical forces without going too far back in history in two thousand and six the palestinians in gaza elected hamas that promised a more affirmative response to the story of the occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import restrictions among many many other things included things like cement wood cat all animal medicine musical latest romans notebooks at one point even lentils pasta tomato paste and chocolate were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it is

well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop they intensified in two thousand and eight is where launched a major assault on gaza operation cast lead killed more than a thousand palestinians and thirteen israelis did not solve the problem again it got worse and american officials keep repeating the mantra israel has the right to defend itself it sure does but the tragedy is that the palestinians to think they are defending themselves a spokeswoman for the israeli foreign ministry and on the stunning says even with such a high civilian death toll in gaza the military operation can still be described as surgical. did that at most possible not to hurt the civilians what we did is we pinpointed our operation just to the terrorist leaders and to their army unit ammunition but i do agree that there are a once in a while there were civilian cattle casualties and we feel very bad about it but as

you know this is not an easy operation no military operation is but by any international standard the collateral damage here is pretty minimal the amount of civilians who died it's hard to say it this way it sounds very bad but it could have been much much worse if we weren't so surgical and if our pilots were not given instructions to be very very precise and to aim is specially at the military terrorist leaders. spokesman for the united nations relief and works agency for palestine g.'s gaius to the people of gaza so never have decent living conditions unless the blockade is lifted. but we have to see what is going to happen as far as the regime is concerned we have always called for the bookcase believe to be certain it's a collective punishment of one hundred six well certainly people it has to end even if all the current upsurge in violence even there is

a crisis in almost every aspect of life through their walls crisis over to creation we are in the process of building one hundred schools because there is a cute overcrowding in schools. there is a crisis of public health because for example ninety percent of all also in gaza is unthinkable millions of liters of rule sewage flowing into the city or every day because sue system is not functional it's not functional and the list goes on. our websites were keeping our finger on the pulse of the middle east about events including the question of who was behind the wednesday's to the bus bombing israel account since the arrest of a suspect responsible for the attack to twenty eight it.

was his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition unfamiliar duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father has just made camp at their winter found stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius just get on with them there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost delighted my sister works with my mother

my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably still most of us is simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into in stream now and it's really fit there could dial it all together. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of the herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for the countryside and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the hoda gets a high at fair price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an

easier more profitable life day in their publics capital because hill but he no longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact way he can start to look for a new wife. mission free credit taishan free transport charges free. arrangement free. free stereotype free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh god r.t. dot com.

i. welcome back now in bahrain twenty three medics have been sentenced to three months in prison for treating protesters and taking part in mass demonstrations they were arrested during the uprising last year one with more than ninety five other health care workers one of those directly affected and out of they have told us what happened during her detention. i was involved in treating the injured patients to

us his testers are not it doesn't really matter. as a punishment for not being the authorities to abandon these patients all the doctors who were involved in cheating the kid just surfaced they were arrested myself personally i was at a state of ducted from my house at three am in the morning and i was badly mistreated i was tortured unfortunately as long as i did stick to just the genes are backed up by international forces and power and they're protecting them and their allies with the united states and britain who don't see any chance for us and is there is a change in the policy of this isn't of these countries. let's have a look at some other international headlines now rebels in eastern syria claim they've seized a key military base containing large oil to stockpiles following a three week standoff some human rights organizations say the facilities the last

stronghold of pro assad forces in the oil rich region it follows the rebels capture of a military airport in the same area last week forty thousand people have been killed in the civil conflict which started in the wake of arab spring protests last year. egyptian president mohammed morsi has unilaterally extended his all thirty five bar in the courts from challenging his decisions and liberal politicians immediately label to create dictatorial describing him as egypt's new fair constitutional court is considering impeaching him. former french president nicolas sarkozy has been questioned by a border courthouse magistrate of allegations of having received illegal to nations the former accountant of reality and betancourt revealed that one hundred fifty thousand euros were sent by the french to say treasure two thousand and seven presidential election under french law individual campaign contributions cannot

exceed four thousand six hundred euros but despite is a step back from politics top is easy grew to be a possible candidate in the twenty seventeen presidential race. and around one hundred forty cars collided in the u.s. state of texas creating a massive thanksgiving day pile up two people died and eighty moue injured majesty workers are in this country one still trapped in the wreckage from today bringing accident on dense fog. twenty seven european countries have come together in brussels to hammer out a new e.u. budget the first day of talks has revealed that existing disagreements could become a major obstacle on the road to reaching an accord what is there a further reports. well a long way to go. all eyes have really been on david cameron for this brussels

budget battle everyone wanting to see whether or not he can come up with a good if you've watched in say five he looks very much like a man trying to lead this fight trying to look like he's in control of this of course most of britain has secret which is that really he's not in control of course in the build up to this big budget summit we've seen that embarrassing defeat where his own backbench is the fight him calling for a real turn cuts to the next budget a whether or not he's going to be able to achieve that that is really the question at the moment it actually seems pretty unlikely that what he's gone to the negotiating table with he'll actually be able to deliver a bit of course the talks are ongoing and they still visions that you seeing within britain in the build up this very much setting the taint for the discussions that are taking place in brussels at the moment it is already a summit that is being marred by delays and by stalemate and say it remains very

uncertain what the he'll they'll get if any deal it'll well as i said i mean really at the moment the pitch is that you're getting is that the whole thing just seems to be in a bit of a mess and as a whole has really seem to lost his vision recently you know we see these huge protests sweeping across the whole of the year is a very very big divide widening all the time and very much again this is mirrored in what's happening at the east summit now are you getting a picture of a t t europe you've got the countries at the moment that it considers negotiating table that have historically contributed much more in britain is amongst those countries and of the many countries like greece and like spain who are absolutely needing this budget to be passed without these cars taking place britain's not alone for calling on these cuts is a huge bug. it and everyone very you know decide on who gets what and as you see traditionally with these folks they detents go into the night as the thing with

this summit they drag on a long time they have very late starts a very early morning they don't seem to be able to hammer out a deal for the can fight really and in an organized manner and we thing that very much repeated but of course this time around much more important i really get to specify who gets what in that seven trillion a year budget at a time of austerity at a time when countries like britain have never had the e.u. membership in question this is never been so important we see the german chancellor angela merkel saying that there's a possibility a very real possibility now that there might be no deal at all and that would be you know absolutely worst case scenario but unfortunately as we've seen with the euro zone often worst case scenario is the reality well the european parliament has voted through a resolution calling for you national militaries to pool their resources and that to the greater unity one of the justifications was

a shrinking defense budget that's left many e.u. states cutting their forces me he david taliban in the from the u.k. conservative party says brussels has encroached on the sovereignty of member states . it really does trespass international responsibilities for the fence and it's talking about the e.u. looking after it its citizens it's a direct assault on sovereignty as i said this really is about politics rather than the military this is about actually furthering the cause of the one united states and europe because they want a single army a single defense industry they want control from the part of their foreign policy and they're actually involved in they want to get in for all of the high intensity conflicts in their terminology and that means war in my terminology they want to actually you to be involved in wars and to commit our soldiers and. our navy people into these kind of conflicts and that is not acceptable now one of the

world's most provocative pop stars is once again in the spotlight russian activists are trying to drag madonna to court for breaching state security and defining the sentencing of the family. he has more details. not only according to these activists madonna poses a great danger to the family institution in russia not only she has offended the feelings of many by openly supporting the gay community in russia during her concert concert in st petersburg this summer but also these activists believe that she in fact poses a threat to the defense capabilities of russia they say that people who believe what madonna has told them during the concert will be involving themselves in all different sorts of good and thus they will not be willing to serve in the army and protect their country these activists were determined to go to the end with a case they were determined to receive ten million dollars of compensation for moral damages but now the case has been turned down by the judge of the st petersburg court and now in fact these activists will have to pay

a certain sum of money for the services of the defending lawyers of the company which was organizing the tour of the american pop star now certainly madonna has been no stranger to different sorts of controversies all throughout her career for instance she exposed nipple during her concert in instils also she supported the. controversial punk band pussy riot during her concert in moscow and the biggest intrigue in the biggest question was whether she would turn up for the hearings in the city to the court for now definitely this would not happen but definitely the story has been a very interesting one and if we have any developments on it and your reactions from the pop star we'll certainly deliver those news right away but coming up we explore the hardships and trials faced daily by the women of afghanistan itself to the break here not to stay with us.

more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all today. wealthy british scientists i. sometimes. find. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our cheat.

sheet in sorrow. and hope for escape. barely surviving longing for a godsend. they live in a search for gold. why doesn't it bring them wealth. download the official ati application to yourself choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from atsushi now t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati at any time.

do we speak your language anybody will or not have been cool news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles kittens stories. for you here q. then surely i'll teach spanish to find out more visit i thought all tito is calm.

churchmen dollars am a little thank you. and plus she as shallow as moshe take italian or should look at up and involved m.p. and joey jackson michigan that i mean me about to call cool while so far you have already other vices make it if you know that i'm sorry loser there will be just to double that or. if you take my dad for years then on your.

you have schools they have that i too would do works with it's men's and the ministry is one that woman is asian enjoys i'm sure i'm i'm supposed to say yes they will but effectiveness if you will and felt they would still do with two alike and even universities because this is freedoms. that no one respects lozier. then there should. be a poem for their own good for their protection either through the what

a bunch of. if women don't wear their headscarf they will be harassed raped injured and humiliated. whole there is no longer move the gun is the low we have the woman in front of it we have the woman in media we have the woman in the universe this we have the woman in the government we have minister . can you imagine that that that that suspect that they had at that. point that what they exchange at that dock just put out of their plan to have a funny duck and a plate at that right now. because nine percent of. females is good to university towns woman out of working buy into it by go out a man and they see it in really they do this is so every two women. they are and defended the economy independent they have some salary this is maybe

one of us not more most of them when we say that the situation of women in afghanistan has improved you can only take into consideration places such as herod to missouri sharif and kabul. in the provinces in the villages the situation hasn't changed. women are still victims of violence and rape.